XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin
From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Ed Cryer  wrote or quoted:
>Is there a technical term for this way that words mutate in meaning?

  In linguistics, when a word goes south and starts to bum people
  out over time, that's called pejoration or semantic degradation.

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